Emlah, I can hardly credit it after all my bitching about this season, but good good crying. And sad crying. Can't believe how good it was, compared to much of the season. The dialogue was snappin', there were jokes, great continuity stuff, the characters were alive again, there was real sadness and joy and bloody great emotional catharsis. Doesn't mean ALL is forgiven though...
I certainly feel a lot better about the whole series now than I did two hours ago. (Nervously hopes this doesn't spoil anything for Aust -- just emotional spoilage.) Why doesn't Joss just do one show at a time, so he doesn't wear himself out, and write the whole bloody thing himself. Because half the writers were writing out of their arses this season.
Angus ... last December I bought a new monitor and within a couple of weeks I had it in the shop getting looked at b/c it went haywire. The service folk couldn't find anything wrong with it and after a week I got it back. A couple of days later the thing went psycho again, only this time it seemed worse b/c it sound like it was going to explode. I then had a problem with the computer itself and that's when I realised the problem with the monitor was being caused by a faulty, 4-socket power-board. The current wasn't getting through properly and fucking up the way the monitor behaved.
Actually I plugged it in again tonight and it's working, bizarrely enough! So that suggests it's probably something to do with the circuitry (I dunno, does that sound right?)...certainly not the tube in any case, which suggests it's at least fixable! I have yesterday's Buffy on tape so I'll watch it tonight, although...
Angus, I had a 10 year old TV that would shut off after 1-3 hours of being on, because of overheating. While waiting to get a new TV, if there was something I want to watch I used to train a fan on the back end of the TV, and that would keep it going for a while. Probably not the safest thing, but it worked.
Extremely dumb question: where does "Big Damn Evil, Sir" come from exactly?
It's a riff on a quote ('big damn heroes, sir') from Joss' short-lived series Firefly which was spoken by the actress, Gina Torres, who played the character of Zoe on Firefly and then, in a fun meta-crossover, went on to play Jasmine on Angel.
I then had a problem with the computer itself and that's when I realised the problem with the monitor was being caused by a faulty, 4-socket power-board. The current wasn't getting through properly and fucking up the way the monitor behaved.
Aha! This may indeed be the problem jimi. Thanks!
I have to admit that I cried on and off for the rest of the evening after watching the series finale.
Oh thanks Leigh! Couldn't have got that, having never seen Firefly. I feel better now, I thought I'd have to give back my Obsessive Buffy and Angel Watcher merit badge.
I'm glad the season was somewhat redeemed for you, Kassto. I can't waaaaiiiiiiitttttt.
Extremely dumb question: where does "Big Damn Evil, Sir" come from exactly?
Me!!! (More specifically, it was my first uttering when the casting news came out for the final arcs of both shows this season. One of my very, very rare half-clever statements.)
Yeah, well I still feel very bloody wobbly the morning after. Reality seems to have shifted under my feet. Didn't help that I stayed up till 1am reading whole lots of stuff about the end of Buffy on the net, and then couldn't sleep afterwards. There's this all dressed up and no place to go feeling about having a powerful yen for a TV show that's now over, feeling overwhelmed at how it ended as well as really pissed off at the way some of it played out. Confusion and sadness reign -- at least this is a place where I won't be made to feel like a complete loser with no life for reacting this way. I hope.
Angus... meant to add, since changing the power-board and I haven't had a problem with the monitor (which gets its power by plugging straight into a power point and not the back of the computer like my previous monitors), or the computer.
